#3 - staying productive

The year is now 2007(ish[ism]) and I’ve left Berkeley, I’m now back in Lynwood and apparently still quite obsessed with bizarre signage. At the same time, I’m working my BA in Film and managed to wrangle myself a highly prestigious position as a local substitute teacher. My new obsession? Elementary kids bad grammar and just bad writing. I go over, read their work, give them a bit of support and then ’snap snap’ on my cameraphone. I also seem to be more conscious of having the camera on me all the time and snap a couple of once in a lifetime ‘Impressionistic’ photos. Oh, I also got far too drunk and threatened to take some theater usher to court while snapping pictures of him in my stupor. (more…)

I love digital cameras. I try to keep one with me at all times, but obviously sometimes it just doesn’t happen. Conversely, I ALWAYS have my phone with me. I cannot function socially if ‘function socially’ isn’t checked off daily on my todo list. Now, the phone has a camera, but I use it sparingly, usually when I need to record information or my regular camera is nowhere to be found. Although I generally save these photos and never return to them, I recently went through them and found many of them to be a far better reflection of my day to day life than the usual digital photos. Ladies & Gentlemen, won’t you follow me on the first part of a two part series…No? Come on it’ll take just a little while…No seriously there’s only like 10 photos…Nah, not allot of writing at all…Ok, cool. (more…)

That’s right, I’m fighting through a horrible vicious cold. I can barely muster the energy to plop this post onto the interweb. Yet, there’s something peculiar about being sick this time around. No it’s not the new colors my body can generate, or the fact that I keep seeing people come in that aren’t here. For some bizarre reason, I’m having the time of my life. (more…)

Absolutely no direction to this one. Just a couple friends hanging out and two microphones in the room. Random songs were added to the list and random things were said in between. There is no theme, cohesion or reason for a podcast like this to exist. Enjoy..

 

 Stereo Nonsense [24:49m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

I’ve had my flickr account for a year or two now and sometimes, when a photo is real good it goes up to a hundred or two views. I really feel proud of these photos. Yesterday, on a lark, I decided to jump in on the song charts meme. (more…)

Alright, time to crank it up a notch. Not too much, just a notch. This second (and final) wedding playlist constitutes the higher BPM spectrum of the wedding. It has a couple standards like Brickhouse and Rock Lobster, but also has Pedro Infante singing about Jalisco and Hepcat asking you to dance with them. Enjoy, as always feedback appreciated.

 

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In the Summer of 2004, on a trip to Rome, I began thinking of a project. The premise was that a catholic priest was falling from grace, but still trying to keep from leaning towards ‘evil’. The story never got through the initial stage, but I did manage to get it somewhat started. Below is the half-hearted, half-started project known as “Infinity” (more…)

In my opinion, one of the most important elements in a wedding, is the music. While flowers and other details can help set the mood, I think music is one of the more revealing aspects of both parties. Planning my own wedding in July, I’ve been going through the old iTunes and slowly building my own wedding playlist. (more…)

 

 The Wedding Playlist (Pt 1) [43:55m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

At UC Berkeley, I took a course called “Introduction to digital media”. We went through a number of ideas on new media and it’s definition thereof. At one point, we received a project in which we were to design a game or website that interacted with visitors a bit more than basic information and feedback. I designed a game entitled “Pingo” (more…)

Years ago, under the influence of various ‘household items’, I found the meaning of life. This wasn’t a simple “Oh, ok that makes sense”. It was more of a “I must go out and tell the people” sort of epiphany. It was during a birthday party, and instead of enjoying everyone around and having a good time, I shut myself in my room with a notebook. What I wrote was absolute genius. I was solving all of the worlds problems with a couple of penstrokes. (more…)

I hate paying premium on things that I know I can find at a lower cost. This runs through every product from bleach to Cd’s. After talking with Mocherz about it for a while, I realized that I have a whole process to assessing a products worth or where I can find it for less. (more…)